• ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    LLM’s are not the only type of AI out there. ChatGPT appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Whose to say the next AI system wont do that as well?

    • Vritrahan@lemmy.zip
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      6 months ago

      Anything can happen. We can discover time travel tomorrow. The economy cannot run on wishful thinking.

      • lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de
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        6 months ago

        It can! For a while. Isn’t that the nature of speculation and speculative bubbles? Sure, they may pop some day, because we don’t know for sure what’s a bubble and what is a promising market disruption. But a bunch of people make a bunch of money until then, and that’s all that matters.

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          6 months ago

          The uncertainty of it is exactly why it shouldn’t suck up as much capital and resources as it is doing.

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              6 months ago

              I agree, and the problem is finance capitalism itself. But then it becomes an ideological argument.